Some Like It Hot (movie)

"The Sound of Music" has been sweet to Laura Benanti. In 1998 at the age of just 18, she made her Broadway debut as Maria in a revival of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, but it was her role last month as Maria's rival, the jilted Elsa Schrader, in NBC's "The Sound of Music Live!," that brought this perennially on-the-cusp actress and singer to the brink of mainstream stardom.

"I have never felt so much love come my way in my entire career, which is hilarious to me," said the 34-year-old during a recent interview at her cozy Upper West Side apartment, decorated with a twinkly Christmas tree and fuzzy snowmen pillows.

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